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  1. Mackinac Center Environmental Analyst Russ Harding Urges Reform of State Dioxin Policy Following Governor’s Veto of Dioxin Testing Bill
     
  2. 25 CCs of Adrenaline — 2005
     
  3. Lewis Cass: Conquering the Wilderness
     
  4. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 20, 2005
     
  5. Are We Biased?
     
  6. My Ten Years
     
  7. Michigan Education Report (2005-03)
     
  8. Mackinac Center Praises Proposed State Constitutional Amendment on Eminent Domain Passed Today by Michigan Legislature
     
  9. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 13, 2005
     
  10. Cable Franchises Raise Rates and Lower Quality
     
  11. Credit Conundrum
     
  12. Hope and Opportunity in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
     
  13. Making Promises That Can be Kept
     
  14. Mackinac Center Praises Ingham Circuit Judge’s Dismissal of MEA Lawsuit to End State Funding of Bay Mills Charter Schools
     
  15. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 6, 2005
     
  16. Advancing the Cause of Educational Excellence
     
  17. IMPACT Fall 2005
     
  18. A Success in Private Welfare
     
  19. Can Detroit’s Problems Be Corrected by an Emergency Financial Manager?
    Making changes to Act 72 would be essential for an EFM to have the necessary tools to deal with the city of Detroit’s management and fiscal problems.
     
  20. Globalization: What a Wonderful World
    Despite Michigan’s recent economic woes, in 2004 it exported $35 billion worth of goods and services to the world, ranking it fourth among the states, up from sixth place in 1998.
     
  21. Insurance Demagoguery Drives Rates Higher, Not Lower
    Like all such proposals, the only thing these bills would do is make insurance unavailable at any price.
     
  22. Debate Workshops Shine with Enthusiasm and Spectrum of Ideas
     
  23. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
    A Mackinac Center “friend of the court” filing to the U.S. Supreme Court in two cases involving federal wetlands regulation of Michigan properties.
     
  24. Flashy Projects Have Not Helped Detroit
     
  25. The U.S. Supreme Court Should Support Michigan Landowners and Democracy
     
  26. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 29, 2005
     
  27. Africans Whom Westerners Should Heed
     
  28. A Taking by Any Other Name
     
  29. Morey Dedication Remarks
     
  30. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 22, 2005
     
  31. Hope in State Graduation Standards Misplaced
     
  32. More Diplomas, More Ivory Tower Research Won’t Cure Michigan’s Malaise
     
  33. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 15, 2005
     
  34. Telecom Policy Staff
     
  35. Michigan: The France of North America
     
  36. Interview Excerpts With Debate Workshop Speakers
     
  37. Around the State - Introductory Report

    An occasional update of privatization initiatives, controversies and news about privatization.


     
  38. Economic Malpractice
     
  39. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 8, 2005
     
  40. Revitalizing Detroit
     
  41. Is There a Statesman in the House? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
    Perhaps we should all take a moment to thank our great-grandchildren yet unborn. If we lack statesmen in this generation, we will still have our disaster relief, our pork and our politics — and they will pay for much of it.
     
  42. Federal Regulations of Mercury Emissions Appear Adequate
    Great Lakes mercury levels are declining, and to the extent that mercury remains a human health threat in Michigan, the federal program is a more sensible first step in addressing it.
     
  43. Does the Headlee Tax Cap Need To Be Tightened? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
    So has Headlee restrained tax and spending growth? The answer is an unequivocal "maybe." In its 26-year history, the cap was exceeded just three times, and only once by enough to trigger a rebate.
     
  44. Create Michigan Jobs and Lower Gas Prices
     
  45. Shepherding Freedom
     
  46. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 1, 2005
     
  47. Michigan Must Lower its ‘Rent’
     
  48. Battle Creek: Don’t Make the Living Wage Mistake
     
  49. Taking Liberties
     
  50. Reading Privatization
     
  51. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 25, 2005
     
  52. Stevens Worldwide Van Lines: A Michigan Success Story
     
  53. New Economic Development Program Risky, Unnecessary
     
  54. The Organ Shortage and Public Policy
     
  55. Organ Shortage
     
  56. School Choice in the Empire State
     
  57. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 18, 2005
     
  58. Telecom Reform: The Right Call for Michigan
     
  59. State of the State
     
  60. Insurance Demagoguery Drives Rates Higher, Not Lower
     
  61. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, October 2005
     
  62. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 11, 2005
     
  63. Michigan Wetlands Cases Allow U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn Federal Regulatory Power That Is “Too Expansive,” say Mackinac Center Analysts
     
  64. A “Little Rebellion,” a Great Man
     
  65. Peter the Great
     
  66. Louis Schimmel: Revolutionary Public Servant
     
  67. A Brief History of State Economic Development
     
  68. A Wisconsin Telecommunications Policy Primer
    A guide to understanding telecommunications law and regulation in Wisconsin and the United States.
     
  69. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 4, 2005
     
  70. New House “Jobs” Bill Would Allow State of Michigan to Invest in Private Equity Funds and Businesses
     
  71. Decisions About Great Lakes Drilling Should Be Left to the States
    The Michigan Environmental Science Board concluded in 1997, “(T)here is little to no risk of contamination to the Great Lakes bottom or waters through releases directly above the bottom hole portion of directionally drilled wells. …”  The one small risk was contamination at the wellhead, far from the water’s edge. But wellheads, too, are regulated by the state.
     
  72. "Poor Choices" Yield Better Education
    The implications of Tooley’s findings are profound. Opposition to parental choice programs has often hinged on the belief that they would hurt the poor. In the wake of these results from Africa and India, it is difficult to imagine how that belief could be sustained.
     
  73. An Agenda for the Next Mayor of Detroit (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
    Real reform can’t be postponed. If Detroit’s decline persists and the city’s financial problems continue, the state may be forced to appoint an “emergency financial manager” to run the city under Public Act 72 — an ignominious end for the mayor and Detroit itself.
     
  74. Does the Headlee Tax Cap Need To Be Tightened?
     
  75. Liberalism and Freedom
     
  76. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 27, 2005
     
  77. Think Tank President Calls on President and Congress to Cut Federal Pork Rather Than Increase Deficit for Katrina Relief
     
  78. State Policy, Federal Policy and Human Capital
     
  79. IMPACT Summer 2005
     
  80. Privatizing Water Works
     
  81. Elections Are a Poor Way to Change Schools
     
  82. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 20, 2005
     
  83. Transforming Michigan
     
  84. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 2005
     
  85. Best-Selling Writer and Lawyer Philip K. Howard To Propose “Special Health Courts” in Lansing Tuesday
     
  86. Little Consensus on Mercury Recommendations
     
  87. Is There a Statesman in the House? (General Article)
     
  88. Taking Measures
     
  89. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 13, 2005
     
  90. The Principled Case for Grilling Judge Roberts
     
  91. An Agenda for the Next Mayor of Detroit (General Article)
     
  92. The Michigan Legislature Should Finish Deregulating Telecom
     
  93. Improving Michigan’s Regulatory Environment
    If businesses or consumers are forced to spend too much money to obtain a permit or to carry out their business, it is the same as taxing their money away — and sometimes worse, since they lose time as well.
     
  94. Tuition Hikes at Michigan Universities Demonstrate Need for Reform
    Private for-profit schools like the University of Phoenix operate at dramatically lower cost per course, offering a product well-liked by students (enrollments are growing 20 percent annually), taught in comfortable but not opulent surroundings.
     
  95. Michigan Supreme Court Ruling on “Beachwalking” Erodes Property Rights
    The court’s ruling now exposes Great Lakes waterfront landowners to new risks and intrusions. Do the landowners have a duty to make the area beneath the high-water mark safe for walkers or wheelchair users? Can people fish all day below the high-water mark?
     
  96. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 6, 2005
     
  97. The Northwest Strike and the Twilight of Organized Labor
     
  98. Forging Consensus Comments by George Clowes and Jay Greene

    This paper summarizes the comments offered by Dr. George Clowes and Dr. Jay P. Greene on my essay "Forging Consensus: Can the School Choice Community Come Together on an Explicit Goal and a Plan for Achieving It," as well as providing my responses to those comments.[1] Though it was written shortly after the comments were submitted, its release was deferred until permission to publish them was received. A complete, slightly revised version of Dr. Clowes’ comments is now available on-line.[2]

    The sections that follow present the reviewers’ comments, grouped by topic. Comments are formatted as block quotations and ascribed to either Dr. Clowes (GC) or Dr. Greene (JPG). My responses appear in the body of the text.

    Dr. Clowes is a senior fellow of the Heartland Institute and contributing editor of the paper School Choice News. Dr. Greene is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute, and author of numerous scientific studies of American schools and school choice programs.


    [1] http://www.mackinac.org/6517

    [2] http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=16914


     
  99. Number Cruncher
     
  100. Pain Threshold
     
  101. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 30, 2005
     
  102. The Minimum Wage Is Hardest on the Poor
     
  103. Private Scholarships: a New Beginning for Detroit’s Kids
     
  104. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 23, 2005
     
  105. Scotland: Seven Centuries After William Wallace
     
  106. A Michigan Catholic School Remains Union-Free
     
  107. Michigan Needs to Jump Start its Economy with Tax Cuts
     
  108. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 16, 2005
     
  109. Michigan Education Report (2005-02)
     
  110. MEA Goes Nuclear in Charter School Suit
     
  111. Retirement Planning for Social Security
     
  112. Where’s the Beef?
     
  113. Former DPS CEO Grudgingly Testified to the Benefits of Educational Liberty
     
  114. Thank You for Registering to Attend
     
  115. Legislative Sunlight — in Michigan and Elsewhere
     
  116. It's Called "the Initiative"
     
  117. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 2, 2005
     
  118. Judge McKeague and the Cost of Confirmation
     
  119. Revised Great Lakes Agreement Should Be Rejected
     
  120. Supreme Court Ruling Shows Telecom Regulation Should Be Abolished
    The ruling’s outcome is all well and good. Yet the FCC’s distinction between “telecommunications services” and “information services” is, in fact, imprecise and arbitrary — a regulatory invention that has no place in today’s telecommunications market.
     
  121. The Sound of Freedom
    In the summer of 1965, my mother announced one day that she was taking me to see a film called “The Sound of Music.” I knew nothing of it other than that a lot of singing was involved, and to my mind, that was a good enough reason to stay home. I went reluctantly — and was enthralled.
     
  122. Survey: School Outsourcing Grows
    According to Loock, the district went from paying a $100,000 subsidy to the food program to posting a profit of up to $25,000 after Chartwells took over.
     
  123. Furthering Freedom from Michigan to Mongolia
     
  124. Competitive Sourcing on an Individual Basis
     
  125. Proposed Water Legacy Act: A Bad Idea for Michigan
     
  126. Debate Workshops 2005
     
  127. The Price of Cool
     
  128. A Der Spiegel Interview with James Shikwati
     
  129. Is the NEA Really a NUT?
     
  130. Proportioning Water
     
  131. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 19, 2005
     
  132. Voice of "Treason"
     
  133. Founding Disneyland: An Entrepreneurial Milestone
     
  134. A Governor Cries “Treason”
     
  135. A Dispatch from Mongolia
     
  136. Court Building
     
  137. The Privatized Accident Fund of Michigan Turns 10
     
  138. Money for Nothin’?
     
  139. The Sound of Freedom (Long Version)
     
  140. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 5, 2005
     
  141. Granholm’s Task Force Report: Wrong Prescription, Critical Disease
    In the four states with a long-term care insurance partnership program, around 180,000 long-term care insurance policies have been sold — a purchase rate far higher than in other states. Of these policyholders, only 86 have had to resort to Medicaid.
     
  142. Bad Food at a Good Price!
    Imagine a restaurant with second-rate food, surly waiters, slow service and high prices. When the manager sees a customer getting restless, he rushes over and offers a 15 percent price cut.
     
  143. Responding to Michigan’s Population Slide
    No serious analysis can argue that redistributing the tax burden or putting the state deeper in debt so it can pick winners and losers could possibly make Michigan better off.
     
  144. The Parent Trap
     
  145. U.S. Supreme Court Vacancy Should Be Filled With Justice Dedicated to Rule of Law and Constitutionally Protected Freedoms
     
  146. Smoke and Terrors
     
  147. Education Policy in Okemos?
     
  148. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 28, 2005
     
  149. Sticks-and-Stoning Michigan’s Economy
     
  150. Property Damage
     
  151. U.S. Supreme Court Today Delivered Flawed Decision in Kelo v. New London
     
  152. Jen and the Art of Education
     
  153. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 22, 2005
     
  154. Michigan Reforms Election Calendar
     
  155. Rally for the Classroom, Not the Budget Process
     
  156. Thatcher of the West
     
  157. Thou Shalt Have No Other School System Before Me
     
  158. Fixing Michigan's Fiscal Policy- 2005 Edition

    As a service to citizens "Michigan's Budget Challenge" provides "one-stop shopping" for those seeking more information about current budget issues facing state government. This Web site contains links to budget analysis from government and non-government experts; budget bills and related legislation; news stories and editorials from Michigan's leading newspapers; commentary from various sources; spending cut studies and articles; and concise, objective, plain-language descriptions of budget bills and related legislation from MichiganVotes.org.

    NEW - Overview of "Omnibus" State Budget passed by the House on June 9, 2005.


     

  159. House “Omnibus Budget” Overview
     
  160. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 14, 2005
     
  161. Telecom Law in Michigan: Change, or Get Left Behind
     
  162. Why Students Need “A Patriot’s History of the United States”
     
  163. Dioxin Agreement Needs Sound Science and Protection for Property Owners
     
  164. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 7, 2005
     
  165. Remembering Reagan
     
  166. The Class is Always Keener on Our Own Side of the Street (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
    Asian students consistently outperformed those in the United States, while their parents downplayed their accomplishments. American parents, unaware of their children’s poor showings, tended to think their children were doing very well.
     
  167. Catholic Schools and the Common Good
    Given Catholic schools’ superior social and academic effects, it would seem sensible to structure education policy so as to make Catholic schooling more readily available, especially to low-income and minority families. We have done the opposite.
     
  168. Schmeling K.O.’d by Louis! Louis K.O.’d by the U.S. Government!
    Even in destitution, Louis remained a symbol of black achievement and American resistance to Hitler. But the American tax code remained a symbol of the strangling of economic wealth and generosity.
     
  169. Jobs Tomorrow: Deja Vu
     
  170. The Good Old Days of Cheap Gas Are Here Now!
     
  171. Responding to Michigan’s Population Slide
     
  172. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 31, 2005
     
  173. "21st Century Jobs Fund": Lessons From the “Clean Michigan” Bond Program
     
  174. An Ethical Business Climate, or a Business Climate of “Ethics”?
     
  175. A Looming Charter School Re-Union?
     
  176. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 24, 2005
     
  177. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, May 2005
     
  178. Notes on Michigan’s Economy
     
  179. Coupons or Value?
     
  180. The Inspiring Story of Thomas Clarkson

    This essay is dedicated to three of Thomas Clarkson’s spiritual heirs: two longtime friends and superb historians, Robert Merritt of Waterford, Conn., and Burton Folsom of Hillsdale, Mich.; and Dr. Hans F. Sennholz, a great economist and teacher who instilled a passion for liberty in many thousands of students over four decades at Pennsylvania’s Grove City College, my undergraduate alma mater.

    —LWR


     
  181. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 17, 2005
     
  182. How Much Is Enough?
     
  183. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 10, 2005
     
  184. The Class is Always Keener on Our Own Side of the Street (General Article)
     
  185. Your Transaction is Secure
     
  186. Socialists at War
     
  187. Despite Governor’s Claims, Proposed Water Legacy Act Unnecessary, Existing Groundwater Laws Ample, Says Former DEQ Director
     
  188. Groundwater Regulation: An Assessment
    In proposing the Water Legacy Act, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is attempting to increase state regulation of groundwater use through a costly and intrusive permit regime. If enacted, this drastic change would upend longstanding water rights and further weaken Michigan’s economy.
     
  189. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 3, 2005
     
  190. Charter Schools: 13 Years and Still Growing
     
  191. Remembering George Sutherland: Defender of the Constitution
    So persuasive was Sutherland, and so bad was the NRA, that the Supreme Court voted unanimously that the law was unconstitutional.
     
  192. Is the Governor’s Water Legacy Act All Wet?
    More water is diverted into the Great Lakes than is siphoned out, and groundwater supplies are regularly replenished and remain abundant.
     
  193. MEGA: 10 Years With Little To Show
    MEGA’s attempt to pick winners and losers is a poor substitute for improving the fundamentals of Michigan’s business climate.
     
  194. Abandoning Prison Privatization Will Cost Michigan Taxpayers
     
  195. Ann Arbor Trailblazers
     
  196. Catholic Schools and the Common Good
     
  197. Freedom and the Organ Shortage
     
  198. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 26, 2005
     
  199. Great Lakes Legislation Ill-Conceived and Ill-Advised
     
  200. Multiplying the Power of Informed Citizens
     
  201. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, April 2005
     
  202. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 19, 2005
     
  203. Testimony by Michael D. LaFaive to the Michigan House Commerce Committee
     
  204. Limit Government; Don’t Run It Like A Business
     
  205. April 18: Another Day of Reckoning
     
  206. April 15
     
  207. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 12, 2005
     
  208. Extensive Study of Michigan Economic Growth Authority Finds Weak Track Record and No Significant Economic Effects
     
  209. MEGA: A Retrospective Assessment
    April 18, 2005 marks the 10th anniversary of The Michigan Economic Growth Authority, a program established by Michigan government with the mission of spurring in-state job creation and business investment. The authority is the state of Michigan’s agent for selecting firms to receive Single Business Tax credits in return for creating new facilities and jobs in Michigan.
     
  210. Michigan’s Math Standards Receive a “C”
     
  211. Michigan Education Report (2005-01)
     
  212. Government, Poverty and Self-Reliance: Wisdom From 19th Century Presidents

    This essay is an edited version of a speech originally given by Lawrence W. Reed, president emeritus of the Mackinac Center, at the inaugural conference of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College in April 2005.


     
  213. John Paul II: Affirming the Importance of Refuge from the State
     
  214. Breaking the Business Tax Deadlock
     
  215. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 5, 2005
     
  216. Freedom to Learn: Rebooted
     
  217. To Own or Be Owned: That Is the Question
    “Ownership” as a general concept is never at issue in any society. It is neither possible nor desirable to construct a society in which people or the material things they create are not “owned.”
     
  218. Her Own Personal Autoworld (Viewpoint of Public Issues)

    More than 50 years of economic development history in Michigan should be enough to convince us that the economic development emperor has no clothes.


     
  219. From Hospitals to Tsunami Relief: Lessons of Charles Hackley
    Millions of Americans have contributed generously, just as they were accustomed to doing a century ago, because Americans have long believed that people voluntarily helping people is the way civil society is meant to work.
     
  220. Judge Paul Gadola: A Win for the Federalists
     
  221. Wage Law: The “Right to Work”
     
  222. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 29, 2005
     
  223. States’ English Standards Still Need Improvement, Study Says
     
  224. The Visionary and the Reactionary
     
  225. Right-Sizing Military Infrastructure
     
  226. No Cop-Out Left Behind
     
  227. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 22, 2005
     
  228. Tax Breaks for Hybrid Buyers
     
  229. Happy Anniversary, Free Speech
     
  230. MEGA Promises Versus MEGA Realities
     
  231. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 15, 2005
     
  232. Wetlands Law Mired in a Bog
     
  233. The Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage
     
  234. The Price of Leadership
     
  235. Analyst: “Site Selection rankings provide only a limited picture of a state’s economy”
     
  236. Site Selection Rankings Are Questionable Indicator of Success
     
  237. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 8, 2005
     
  238. A Fair Comparison: U.S. Students Lag in Math and Science
    The notion that America’s public school problems are confined to inner cities, and that our wealthy suburbs produce world-beating high school graduates, is a myth.
     
  239. Watkins Debacle Shows Need for Basic Education Reforms
    If the Michigan Board of Education, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and the state Legislature hope to regain any credibility with the public, they must now show that they are serious about helping kids — and not just exiling people who offer straight talk about the system.
     
  240. The “Payless Payday”
    What’s the moral for state leaders today? The lasting and meaningful question is always, “Am I doing the right thing?”
     
  241. A Quick Guide to the Scholarly Literature on School Choice
     
  242. Trying Too Hard to Be Cool
     
  243. Prudent Investor
     
  244. Job Search
     
  245. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 1, 2005
     
  246. Her Own Personal "Autoworld" (General Article)
     
  247. To Own or Be Owned: That Is the Question (Original Version)
     
  248. Government Encouragement
     
  249. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 22, 2005
     
  250. Liberty at the Threshold
     
  251. David L. Littmann Encourages State Legislators “To Sort Wheat From Chaff” in Book “Price of Government”
     
  252. Reinventing a Broken Wheel
     
  253. 4M: The Real Structural Problem
     
  254. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 15, 2005
     
  255. IMPACT Winter 2005
     
  256. School Budgets: A Crisis of Management, Not Finance
     
  257. Water Softener
     
  258. Borrowing Time?
     
  259. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 8, 2005
     
  260. “200 Pounds of Rock-Solid Muscle, Sir!”
     
  261. Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Liberty
    We cannot know what views Douglass and Washington might hold if they were alive today. But it’s worth remembering that the injustice and racial discrimination they faced in their era were at least as unforgiving as any persecution experienced in America in recent decades.
     
  262. Creating Clear Signals on Telecom
    Telecom firms are understandably reluctant to invest in markets where regulators wield power arbitrarily.
     
  263. The Great Emigration
    If people are the lifeblood of a city, then Detroit is bleeding to death. Staunching the flow will require a dramatic improvement in the city’s schools.
     
  264. By the Time I Got Back From Phoenix...
     
  265. How Ideology Perpetuates the Achievement Gap
     
  266. In Celebration of Black History Month, 2005
     
  267. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 1, 2005
     
  268. Mackinac Center President Calls for Eliminating SBT Through Spending Cuts, and for Deregulation of Telecom
     
  269. Michigan at the Crossroads
     
  270. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, January 2005
     
  271. Regulating the Regulators: Adopt a “No-More-Stringent” Law
     
  272. Dare We Compare?
     
  273. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 25, 2005
     
  274. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick cites Mackinac Center
    Mackinac Center cited by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in a speech on budget cuts. Fox News (video).
     
  275. Lansing Must Embrace Basic Reform Following the Watkins Debacle
     
  276. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 18, 2005
     
  277. Revisiting Cobo
     
  278. The $200 Million Question
     
  279. Toyota Land Deal: Unequal Treatment, Awful Outcome
     
  280. Presidential Demeanor?
     
  281. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 11, 2005
     
  282. A New Beginning: Ending the Single Business Tax
    Only eliminating the SBT and ensuring a bold net reduction in business taxes can begin to trump Michigan’s other handicaps in its economic competition with other states and nations. Even eliminating the SBT and cutting state spending dollar-for-dollar is not impossible; the Mackinac Center for Public Policy has detailed billions in potential state budget savings in areas like Medicaid, education and corrections.
     
  283. Michigan at the Crossroads
    The world economy is relentlessly, ruthlessly competitive. Michigan has no entitlement to a healthy economic future. Unless Lansing finds the courage to abandon “business‑as‑usual,” the state’s economy — and the people of Michigan — will fall further and further behind.
     
  284. Watkins Gets It Right
     
  285. Ending the Evolutionary War
     
  286. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 4, 2005
     
  287. Jack McHugh Discusses the State Legislature's 2004 Tax Hikes on WAAM's "The Careful Capitalist"
    Mackinac Center Legislative Analyst Jack McHugh discussed the legislature’s recent tax and fee increase votes with host Mark Robinson on WAAM radio’s “The Careful Capitalist” program. McHugh explained how the pressure to spend still overcomes politicians’ recognition that Michigan’s taxes and government will need to get smaller. This is a failure of will that has a very real cost to our economy and our freedom.
     
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